Little Lost Sister

“It isn’t always the costume of women of fashion ... or the blazing resplendent show-window that tempts Little Lost Sisters. It is more often just the human need for love and shelter ... the lack of a friendly handclasp that shall lighten tomorrow’s labor ... the sympathy and understanding that breeds hope”

Little Lost

Sister

Virginia Brooks

Author of

“MY BATTLES WITH VICE”

NEW YORK

THE MACAULAY COMPANY

F. A. P. GAZZOLO AND R. E. RICKSEN,

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Prologue	[13]
I	At the Button Mill	[17]
II	Seeing Millville	[27]
III	Enter a Detective	[37]
IV	Harvey Meets “A Dealer in Cattle”	[49]
V	A Serpent Whispers and a Woman Listens	[57]
VI	A Romance Dawns—and a Tragedy	[67]
VII	Harry Boland Hears from His Father	[77]
VIII	The Death of Tom Welcome	[85]
IX	In Which Some of Chicago’s Best People Essay a Task Too Big for Them	[95]
X	The Adventures of a Newspaper Story	[115]
XI	A Bomb for Mr. Grogan	[133]
XII	Bad News from Millville	[145]
XIII	The Reader Meets Another Old Acquaintance	[155]
XIV	In Which the Wolf is Bitten by the Lamb	[165]
XV	The Search Begins for the Lost Sister	[173]
XVI	John Boland Meets Mary Randall	[185]
XVII	The Cafe Sinister	[203]
XVIII	Lost in the Levee	[219]
XIX	Mary Randall Goes to Live in a Wolf’s Den	[229]
XX	Druce Signs a Significant Document	[241]
XXI	Druce Proves a True Prophet	[253]
XXII	“The Mills of the Gods”	[261]
XXIII	After the Tragedy	[271]
XXIV	“The Highway of the Upright”	[277]
XXV	The Interests Versus Mary Randall	[289]
XXVI	Out on Bail	[297]
XXVII	Harvey Spencer Takes up the Trail	[305]
XXVIII	The Forces That Conquer	[317]
XXIX	The Call of Eternity	[329]
XXX	At the Wedding Feast	[335]
XXXI	With the Roses of Love	[345]
XXXII	At Mary Randall’s Summer Home	[353]
	Afterward	[359]

LITTLE LOST SISTER